Constantin Nordmann

Constantin Nordmann (born February 8, 1805 in Rinteln , † June 3, 1889 in Hanover ) was a master bricklayer and architect of the 19th century who built buildings in and around Hanover mostly in classicist forms and in the arched style.

family

Own house

Family grave

Constantin Nordmann came from a family of bricklayers. He was the father-in-law

the engineer Georg Dickert (founder of Lindener Eisengießerei AG Dickert , later Lindener Eisen- & Stahlwerke AG ),
by the Hanoverian architect Friedrich Nordmann,
by the Hanoverian architect Gustav Heine
and the building contractor Ferdinand Wallbrecht .

Life

After his mason apprenticeship and wandering, Constantin Nordmann stayed in Hanover in 1824. There he worked as a journeyman for eleven years and was accepted into the office of bricklayer and stone mason in 1835 (as the tenth master).

In the combination as a building contractor and architect, he had particular success with buildings in the newly created district of Ernst-August-Stadt (between the main train station and Georgstraße ) and on Königstraße, including the later “Hotel Union” and “Kastens Hotel”.

Nordmann often worked with Ferdinand Wallbrecht. His family grave is in the New St. Nikolai Cemetery in Hanover's Nordstadt district .

Nordmannsturm in the Deister

Buildings and designs

1845: Hunting lodge in the Deister for King Ernst August I , today's forester's lodge Georgsplatz
1853–1856: Museum for Art and Science (today the Künstlerhaus ) - under the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase
1862/1863: Nordmannsturm in the Deister
several buildings in Koenigstrasse in Hanover
own house, Herrenstrasse 15 in Hanover (under monument protection)

Honors

Nordmannstrasse (at the Steintor ), laid out by Ferdinand Wallbrecht in 1876, was named after the architect ; After the air raids on Hanover in World War II , the Nordmannpassage was rebuilt there in 1954 .

literature

Günther Kokkelink , Harold Hammer-Schenk (eds.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the 19th century. Hannover 1989, p. 519 f., P. 569.
Helmut Knocke : Nordmann, Constantin. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 482.

Individual evidence

↑ All information according to Helmut Knocke: Nordmann, Constantin. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 482
↑ the local council Wenniger Mark (see web links) denies the term "hunting lodge"
↑ House number researched by Bernd Schwabe after walking through the street: The only (preserved) house in the arched style on Herrenstrasse, see p. photo

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Nordmann, Constantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German contractor and architect
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rinteln
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 1889
Place of death	Hanover

[1] All information according to Helmut Knocke: Nordmann, Constantin. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 482

[2] the local council Wenniger Mark (see web links) denies the term "hunting lodge"

[3] House number researched by Bernd Schwabe after walking through the street: The only (preserved) house in the arched style on Herrenstrasse, see p. photo